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Is that really the province's fault though?
Not agreeing with Smith when she blames Nenshi, but wouldn't the watermain breaks be the collective responsibilities of all the previous sessions of city council up to the break for not doing routine inspections?
In any case it's annoying to me that she's blaming the oil glut for the deficit without announcing exactly what proper long-term plans she has to diversify the economy to prevent this issue from being a repeat one. Like, an AI data centre is not going to be a good long-term investment if you just look how much has been dropped into OpenAI to attempt to make it profitable.
A bunch of city funding comes from the province.
True, but isn't it the city's responsibility to properly allot that funding? Or are you saying that the cities are underfunded by the province, which I wouldn't be surprised by.
Yeah I was getting at the fact that they're underfunded.
The report from the city actually found they were underspending on risk analysis and mitigation, not that they were underfunded.
I don't know if Alberta is like Ontario, but here in Ontario over the last 3 decades the province has slowly been reducing how much it transfers to cities while also offloading more expenses onto those cities.
This has resulted in:
And likely other things too. But those are the ones always on my mind